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barack obama, six years and bill clinton, 11 years and george w. bush nine years. is he playing into the hands? >> yes, he is. on a different reason of transparency. mitt romney is different. he is saying to the american people, vote for me because i'm a successful businessman and i can turn around an economy economy. all we are saying is look at your personal economics. you are talking about what you want to do to the american economy and yet, we're seeing evidence that you moved money overseas. we are seeing evidence that you had shell corporations in the caymans and bahamas. that is very material to mitt romney's own argument as to why he should be president. that is why it is more than are you being transparent. is mitt romney willing to show is us the money? let's see why he is so qualified based on his declaration that he is a very good businessman. let's see it, mitt. >> let's see what carl had to say on "morning joe" about this. >> to quote a book title, i think romney's taxes are a game changer. it is extraordinary to have someone running for president tha
barack obama, six years and bill clinton, 11 years and george w. bush nine years. is he playing into the hands? >> yes, he is. on a different reason of transparency. mitt romney is different. he is saying to the american people, vote for me because i'm a successful businessman and i can turn around an economy economy. all we are saying is look at your personal economics. you are talking about what you want to do to the american economy and yet, we're seeing evidence that you moved money...
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it was george w. bush. there's a real record of republican decisions and those are all decisions from tax policy to the reduction of a social safety net to foreign policy that looks precisely like the record that mitt romney wants to run on. >> are we getting close to a point where romney starts positiveting to defending bush/cheney w all of the advisers, the dick cheney thing, the float of the condoleezza rice thing, which i can't say is from the romney campaign, are they getting close to saying the bush sla bush/chaina years are good years? >> i don't think 13% approval for dick cheney -- >> that's where he was when he left office. >> we saw the bumper stickers, do you miss me yet? i think the re-sounding -- >> everybody is like, no. >> no, in fact, no. >> no, thanks for asking. >> exactly. >> melissa harris perry, thank you for being here. the new melissa harris' her perry so is weekends, 10:00 a.m. >> the man turning out the be the strangest senator in washington is still refusing to do an interview on
it was george w. bush. there's a real record of republican decisions and those are all decisions from tax policy to the reduction of a social safety net to foreign policy that looks precisely like the record that mitt romney wants to run on. >> are we getting close to a point where romney starts positiveting to defending bush/cheney w all of the advisers, the dick cheney thing, the float of the condoleezza rice thing, which i can't say is from the romney campaign, are they getting close...
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george w. bush got 42% of the hispanic vote in 2004. mitt romney on the other hands, in terms of policy, he's trying to appeal to the public by proposing his immigration policy. he calls it self deportation. he's promising to follow the lead of arizona, of all places, for national immigration law. that sort of outreach has earned him an appeal with hispanic voters that is, look at that, 40 points below president obama. he's even down 18 points from what george w. bush did with hispanic voters. the romney campaign is trying to move the dpil monohispanic voters. want to know how? they released this ad yesterday. it features mitt romney's son craig speaking spanish. that's something. how much fire power is the romney campaign putting behind the ad? reportedly they are putting up $10,000 for that ad buy in raleigh, north carolina. $10,000 which is 1 million cents. just for comparison. here's the amount the romney campaign is putting behind the latest obama is a lying liar right now just in north carolina. so the hispanic outreach ad, that w
george w. bush got 42% of the hispanic vote in 2004. mitt romney on the other hands, in terms of policy, he's trying to appeal to the public by proposing his immigration policy. he calls it self deportation. he's promising to follow the lead of arizona, of all places, for national immigration law. that sort of outreach has earned him an appeal with hispanic voters that is, look at that, 40 points below president obama. he's even down 18 points from what george w. bush did with hispanic voters....
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you have to hunt george w. bush interviews on youtube. it's cheney hosting fund-raisers for romney at his house. he won't even say george w. bush's name on the record. dick cheney is the guy republicans have welcomed back to capitol hill today to argue for his chosen policies on the military. while george w. bush was making his 22nd endorsement that included referring to politics as a swamp he crawled out of in an hour-long interview with anb secure think tank. this california college think tank listed the interview privately. if he looks teeth on edge while he's making the endorschment, maybe it's because he seems to recognize that no one wants to run with him as the wind beneath their wings. do not count george bush out. he's reinventing himself starting with a new book that's out today. it's called "the 4% solution" unleashing the economic growth america needs, and there's a foreword by president bush, says his name twice on the cover, has a bunch of essays by economists he likes, about how the economy can be made to grow at a rate of
you have to hunt george w. bush interviews on youtube. it's cheney hosting fund-raisers for romney at his house. he won't even say george w. bush's name on the record. dick cheney is the guy republicans have welcomed back to capitol hill today to argue for his chosen policies on the military. while george w. bush was making his 22nd endorsement that included referring to politics as a swamp he crawled out of in an hour-long interview with anb secure think tank. this california college think...
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former president george w. bush said he supported mitt romney. but he's going to keep away from the campaign. bush gave an hour-long interview with the hoover institution. he said life after the white house is awesome. he also says texas is awesome. biking across the country, it's awesome. and this presidency was, that was awesome, too. >> eight years was awesome. i was famous and i was powerful, but i have -- i have no desire for fame and power anymore. >> all right, but hold the phone. most americans do not think the bush years were awesome. cbs news just released this new poll tonight. 48% of registered voters think george w. bush should take most of the blame for the economist downturn. 33% think he's at least partially to blame. bush said he won't get involved in mitt romney's campaign. mitt romney probably thinks, that's pretty awesome. let's turn to krystal ball, host of msnbc's the cycle, susan del persio and kelly goff. thank you for coming in on this rainy night in new york city. >> awesome to be here. >> awesome. >> did any of you swim
former president george w. bush said he supported mitt romney. but he's going to keep away from the campaign. bush gave an hour-long interview with the hoover institution. he said life after the white house is awesome. he also says texas is awesome. biking across the country, it's awesome. and this presidency was, that was awesome, too. >> eight years was awesome. i was famous and i was powerful, but i have -- i have no desire for fame and power anymore. >> all right, but hold the...
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former white house press secretary for george w. bush ari fleisher. cnn contributor paul begala. joins me as well. paul, you advise the super pac which has run a lot of these negative ads many thousands of times. negative campaigning, you're more than okay with it? >> totally, absolutely. the ads to the pac i advise which is priorities usa action. they have featured the most powerful ads. and the ones we have run the most of. the real words of real people that mitt romney laid off. he came and took over these companies. he loaded them up with debt. he in some cases he bankrupted them. paid himself millions. and canceled the health benefits. we sent cameras to places like marion, indiana, kansas city and we filmed these people and their heartbreaking stories. the "los angeles times," "l.a. times," terrific journalist, called our ad the most effective democratic ad this year. >> so did the president say -- can the president say there's been a slew of positive ads? >> yeah, i don't know how many is in a slew. i thought you nailed ax pretty well on this. my job i think in this pro-ob
former white house press secretary for george w. bush ari fleisher. cnn contributor paul begala. joins me as well. paul, you advise the super pac which has run a lot of these negative ads many thousands of times. negative campaigning, you're more than okay with it? >> totally, absolutely. the ads to the pac i advise which is priorities usa action. they have featured the most powerful ads. and the ones we have run the most of. the real words of real people that mitt romney laid off. he...
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bush and dick janney was george w. bush and dick cheney. the country was happy to see them go for understandable reasons. four years after the bush/cheney administration, the new republican party nominee, mitt romney, has made precisely zero public appearanced with george w. bush or dick cheney. this is still the most interesting thing in american politics. the reconstruction of the republican party post-george w. bush and post-dick cheney is as yet incomplete and still the most interesting thing to watch. hot is the new republican party going to be after that? what is the new republican party leadership going to be after them? all of this has led to some very awkward moments on the campaign trail this year for the republican party's new nominee. the first president bush is much more highly regarded than his son is. but he is a little older and a little unpredictable in public now. previously, that has manifested as some unexpected crying jags at public speeches and things. nothing that would harm his image, but there's an element of unpred
bush and dick janney was george w. bush and dick cheney. the country was happy to see them go for understandable reasons. four years after the bush/cheney administration, the new republican party nominee, mitt romney, has made precisely zero public appearanced with george w. bush or dick cheney. this is still the most interesting thing in american politics. the reconstruction of the republican party post-george w. bush and post-dick cheney is as yet incomplete and still the most interesting...
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w. bush which brought about the whole economic crisis. >> let me ask about the tax cuts expiring. my position in the senate democrats is the gop pledge, obviously not to vote to raise taxes, can be gotten around by letting the tax cuts expire on january 1st and then vote on a tax cut for those who make less than 2$250,000 a year. let me play for you what minority leader mitch mcconnell said. >> democrats in congress are now saying that they would rather see taxes go up on every american at the end of the year than let about 1 million businesses keep what they earn now. >> is he right and where do you see showdown going? >> no, he is not right. we will have a vote next week. it will give 100% of the people a tax break on the first $250,000 of income. beyond that, if you are over that, your income over that is taxed at the bill clinton rates. those rates were fair and just. those rates led us to 23 million jobs created and a surplus instead of deficits. mitch mcconnell should join hands wi
w. bush which brought about the whole economic crisis. >> let me ask about the tax cuts expiring. my position in the senate democrats is the gop pledge, obviously not to vote to raise taxes, can be gotten around by letting the tax cuts expire on january 1st and then vote on a tax cut for those who make less than 2$250,000 a year. let me play for you what minority leader mitch mcconnell said. >> democrats in congress are now saying that they would rather see taxes go up on every...
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in addition to governor snoozy, there's george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryan, the guy who became nationally famous when he suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also
in addition to governor snoozy, there's george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryan, the guy who became nationally famous when he suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also
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w. bush and eliminated funding for president obama's top education program program the race to the top but they quadrupled funding for abstinence only education why is it that the republicans are against paying for science teachers and and in favor of pain for abstinence education which doesn't even work i don't get out of you know the solution every time i see this debated you know this is every couple years oh look at the test scores look at this look at the performance of these schools the solution let's throw more money at it and republicans democrats go back and forth and what are the well one eight but we do great schools but again we're not we're talking about a mythological period of time here i'm sorry really all sixty seventy s these were not a mythological time i lived through them those those schools were not going to be just blown up half the world and we're looking at and saying wow it's surprising that the u.s. education system is so good as the rest of the world is rebuil
w. bush and eliminated funding for president obama's top education program program the race to the top but they quadrupled funding for abstinence only education why is it that the republicans are against paying for science teachers and and in favor of pain for abstinence education which doesn't even work i don't get out of you know the solution every time i see this debated you know this is every couple years oh look at the test scores look at this look at the performance of these schools the...
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. >> two words -- three words george w. bush. two words and an initial. that's all people would talk about. she's never been personally vetted. does she really want to go through people digging through her past? she's shown no inclination. >> jennifer: is it an effort from the romney team to divert from the bain stuff? >> it is a weird way to divert. i agree with joe. it will not be somebody who overshines mitt romney. they will not make that mistake. it will be another boring guy that looks like maybe a new car salesman to mitt romney's used car salesman. >> jennifer: we're back to joe's prediction. i gotta go unfortunately. thank you so much for joining us. next filmmaker marc levin shares the emotional tales of middle class unemployment. you want to know why bain is important. watch this next. we'll visit a new mini series for political junkies who love scandal. >> first of all, i'm divorced. secondly, i was involved in a diplomatic crisis all day. i didn't have time for a costume change. and who doesn't want 50% more cash? ugh, the baby. huh! and then
. >> two words -- three words george w. bush. two words and an initial. that's all people would talk about. she's never been personally vetted. does she really want to go through people digging through her past? she's shown no inclination. >> jennifer: is it an effort from the romney team to divert from the bain stuff? >> it is a weird way to divert. i agree with joe. it will not be somebody who overshines mitt romney. they will not make that mistake. it will be another boring...
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w. nick's article gets at it a little bit, is it 50%, 20%? kind of hard to say. >> i want to bring in something governor walker said, to give the republican perspective, because people are getting nervous on that side. he basically said look, never fight a battle on your heels. romney's got to be forceful about fighting back. >> here's the thing. the romney team has to decide what is it they're fighting and what is it they want to explain. pick something and start chipping through this story. there is a distinction as everyone on this table is making between having a title and having responsibility. okay, explain that, because what has happened in the last few days is there's just too many things happening that are easy political ads for the obama team to make. they can show a picture of a document, here's his signature, you can see that right now, then people say oh, my god, must be bad. >> he has been to this rodeo before. he has been to it three times before. how have they not taken t
w. nick's article gets at it a little bit, is it 50%, 20%? kind of hard to say. >> i want to bring in something governor walker said, to give the republican perspective, because people are getting nervous on that side. he basically said look, never fight a battle on your heels. romney's got to be forceful about fighting back. >> here's the thing. the romney team has to decide what is it they're fighting and what is it they want to explain. pick something and start chipping through...
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george w. bush, eight years. george romney his own father, 12 years. and when you hear this raise to the romney campaign he's been inaccurately saying teresa heinz kerry didn't releez her taxes in 2004. let me show you what he says about mrs. kerry. >> john kerry ran for president. his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. somehow this wasn't an issue. >> now, i might add the kerry campaign -- not the campaign but his office, he's not running anymore. came back with this. the romney campaign needs to stop getting their facts wrong. mitt romney ought to speak for himself rather than making inaccurate comments about teresa. it's interesting to me, erin. first he was saying kerry only put out two years and it ended up being five. he's trying to do everything he can to deflect from answering. why he doesn't do what moes people have done. >> well, remember also, teresa heinz kerry didn't run for president. john kerry did. and mitt romney is running for president. the bigger problem is, look. this is indicative how
george w. bush, eight years. george romney his own father, 12 years. and when you hear this raise to the romney campaign he's been inaccurately saying teresa heinz kerry didn't releez her taxes in 2004. let me show you what he says about mrs. kerry. >> john kerry ran for president. his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. somehow this wasn't an issue. >> now, i might add the kerry campaign -- not the campaign but his office, he's not...
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w. so we believe it is a great crisis facing the united states today. and we're urging president obama, which he's starting to do, by the way, very, very impressed with his campaign of late, to put the middle class front and center in the things he's going to do. >> stan, when you talk about the middle class, is this why the president delivered this middle class tax cut proposal and contrary to the arguments of some, joe scarborough was making this point yesterday with us, that he should have just gone up to the million dollars? i mean, that's what chuck schumer has said. that's what claire mccaskill, bill nelson, others who are running in tough elections, that when you target only $250,000 and list, you're not reaching the whole middle class and you're also hurting middle class businessowners and job creators. >> look, this is -- he has a mandate on this issue. he ran in 2008 on, you know, keeping people whole under $250,000. he had three weeks of debate. let's not forget joe the plumbe
w. so we believe it is a great crisis facing the united states today. and we're urging president obama, which he's starting to do, by the way, very, very impressed with his campaign of late, to put the middle class front and center in the things he's going to do. >> stan, when you talk about the middle class, is this why the president delivered this middle class tax cut proposal and contrary to the arguments of some, joe scarborough was making this point yesterday with us, that he should...
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but rush was never outraged, nor should he have been, that george w. bush smoked a little weed when he was a young man, and wouldn't ever, ever answer questions about whether he used cocaine, but did admit to being an alcoholic. so smoking a little weed, maybe doing cocaine, and actually being an alcoholic are completely cool with rush, as long as it's a republican we're talking about. but barack obama smoking a little weed should be something that is used against him, should disqualify him from the presidency. rush is, of course, lying about this. rush doesn't think there's anything wrong with smoking a little weed in college. rush completely understands that choice, just as he understands much more intense relationships with illicit drugs, like his own relationship with drugs. rush limbaugh is a drug addict. a drug addict whose habit got him in trouble with the law. a drug addict whose high-priced lawyers made a deal to get him into rehab, to avoid prosecution on a drug felony that he was arrested for. rush limbaugh hates barack obama. he hates him.
but rush was never outraged, nor should he have been, that george w. bush smoked a little weed when he was a young man, and wouldn't ever, ever answer questions about whether he used cocaine, but did admit to being an alcoholic. so smoking a little weed, maybe doing cocaine, and actually being an alcoholic are completely cool with rush, as long as it's a republican we're talking about. but barack obama smoking a little weed should be something that is used against him, should disqualify him...
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w. mark, it's no surprise that joe biden would get a better reception at the naacp than mitt romney and mitt romney did get a respectful reception. there were some boos, of course, when he talked about cutting the president's health care bill, repealing it, but he did get a standing ovation from some in the audience at the end. today, joe bidenreaandrea, it w of a speech. president obama took heat for not addressing the naacp convention. he sent vice president joe biden in instead. you also see why biden is a very effective surrogate for president obama in the campaign. he's actually able to say things probably president obama can't or doesn't do as effective of a job. when you saw joe biden tick through the accomplishments of the obama administration, the health care passage, the killing of osama bin laden, those are things that actually we haven't seen president obama make as effectively and so you end up having joe biden making those arguments for president obama today. >> and meanwhi
w. mark, it's no surprise that joe biden would get a better reception at the naacp than mitt romney and mitt romney did get a respectful reception. there were some boos, of course, when he talked about cutting the president's health care bill, repealing it, but he did get a standing ovation from some in the audience at the end. today, joe bidenreaandrea, it w of a speech. president obama took heat for not addressing the naacp convention. he sent vice president joe biden in instead. you also see...
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in addition to governor snoozy, there's george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryan, the guy who became nationally famous when he suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also louisiana governor bobby jindal. yesterday, he joins bobby jindal in louisiana for fund-raisers. the beltway press describing him as buzzed about as one of romney's most visible supporters and as a vp short lister.
in addition to governor snoozy, there's george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryan, the guy who became nationally famous when he suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also louisiana governor bobby jindal. yesterday, he joins bobby jindal in louisiana for fund-raisers. the beltway press describing him as buzzed about as one of romney's most visible supporters...
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george w. bush eight years. george romney, mitt romney's father when he ran for president released 12 years. mitt romney only two years. so it's not like this is not something that isn't done. even in primaries all that have run had to release returns and go through the questions there were. >> right. >> so the question here of transparency and of whether or not as former president clinton raised did you use foreign tax places -- havens to hide the taxes. >> well, rev, what you left out in that litany of the presidents and presidential candidates who've released their tax returns, yes george romney, are m romney's father when he ran in the 1968 race. he set the precedent of returns. before him candidates would give out general views of where their tax liabilities and things. but george romney thought it was important to hand over 12 years of actual tax returns so that folks would know that quote, it wasn't a fluke. also to make sure people understood that he wasn't just showing off where the money came from. mit
george w. bush eight years. george romney, mitt romney's father when he ran for president released 12 years. mitt romney only two years. so it's not like this is not something that isn't done. even in primaries all that have run had to release returns and go through the questions there were. >> right. >> so the question here of transparency and of whether or not as former president clinton raised did you use foreign tax places -- havens to hide the taxes. >> well, rev, what...
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former white house press secretary for george w. bush ari fleisher. cnn contributor paul begala. joins me as well. paul, you advise the super pac which has run a lot of these negative ads many thousands of times. negative campaigning, you're more than okay with it? >> totally, absolutely. the ads to the pac i advise which is priorities usa action. they have featured the most powerful ads. and the ones we have run the most of. the real words of real people that mitt romney laid off. he came and took over these companies. he loaded them up with debt. he in some cases he bankrupted them. paid himself millions. and canceled the health benefits. we sent cameras to places like marion, indiana, kansas city and we filmed these people and their heartbreaking stories. the "los angeles times," "l.a. times," terrific journalist, called our ad the most effective democratic ad this year. >> so did the president say -- can the present say there's been a slew of positive ads? >> yeah, i don't know how many is in a slew. i thought you nailed ax pretty well on this. my job i think in this pro-obam
former white house press secretary for george w. bush ari fleisher. cnn contributor paul begala. joins me as well. paul, you advise the super pac which has run a lot of these negative ads many thousands of times. negative campaigning, you're more than okay with it? >> totally, absolutely. the ads to the pac i advise which is priorities usa action. they have featured the most powerful ads. and the ones we have run the most of. the real words of real people that mitt romney laid off. he...
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and george w. bush himself seems to agree. he told the hoover institute it was awesome being president for eight years but he doesn't miss it. bush said he has, quote, no desire for fame and power anymore. he said, quote, i crawled out of the swamp and i'm not crawling back in. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,805 after rising 78 points yesterday. the s&p gained 10, the nasdaq added 13. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei was down 28 points while in hong kong the hang seng tumbled 215. stocks rose tuesday after fed chair ben bernanke told congress the central bank would consider ways to stimulate growth if the economy further weakens. bernanke's lack of specifics before a senate committee drove stocks lower in early trade. he did say the economy is suffering but eventually just the fact the fed chief said policymakers would consider a variety of tools to stimulate growth led to late
and george w. bush himself seems to agree. he told the hoover institute it was awesome being president for eight years but he doesn't miss it. bush said he has, quote, no desire for fame and power anymore. he said, quote, i crawled out of the swamp and i'm not crawling back in. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,805 after rising 78 points yesterday. the s&p...
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w. bush not only do they cut income taxes for the wealthiest americans like the wall there is starting back in two thousand and one the also cut the instate the estate tax the inheritance tax mean the waltons can continue collecting and then passing their enormous fortunes on without being taxed between two thousand and one and two thousand and ten the estate tax was phased out dropping from fifty five percent of bill clinton to eventually zero in two thousand and ten and guess who is lobbying for eliminating the estate tax altogether the walton family and even though today the estate tax is back up to a more reasonable thirty five percent still only applies to the richest of the rich fewer than one percent of americans and it's far lower than the fifty five percent rate under president bill clinton but republicans are still trying to eliminate it all together as part of their push to extend the bush tax cuts for people like the waltons again at the end of the year so ten years after bus
w. bush not only do they cut income taxes for the wealthiest americans like the wall there is starting back in two thousand and one the also cut the instate the estate tax the inheritance tax mean the waltons can continue collecting and then passing their enormous fortunes on without being taxed between two thousand and one and two thousand and ten the estate tax was phased out dropping from fifty five percent of bill clinton to eventually zero in two thousand and ten and guess who is lobbying...
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. >> i put this up to george w. bush who was asked after four years if he had made any mistakes yet and he said i can't think of any. >> i give him credit, it makes me like him more. but you don't want to show, especially in this campaign, is any form of weakness or self-doubt. >> what do you think, richard, he's right there. >> the question about the communication about the american story is telling his story, what kind of a president was he going to be? was he the insider making deals, or was he the outsider or the reformer and i think they got the balance wrong. he could have talked more about the kinds of reforms that he wants to do in his second term, that he didn't do in his first term. he said it was a mission, maybe half a mission. maybe you don't want to show weakness, but you've got to show honesty and one of the strengths he had in 2008 was he seemed to be answer the question. >> if you want to say there is a problem in the message, look at the highlights in this poll who would do the best job of improvin
. >> i put this up to george w. bush who was asked after four years if he had made any mistakes yet and he said i can't think of any. >> i give him credit, it makes me like him more. but you don't want to show, especially in this campaign, is any form of weakness or self-doubt. >> what do you think, richard, he's right there. >> the question about the communication about the american story is telling his story, what kind of a president was he going to be? was he the...
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what happened is our friend in the white house, george w. bush and his republican deficit hawk friends went into two wars and the great deficit hawks eliot you know what? they forgot to pay for the wars. then they give huge tax breaks to billionaires. and then wall street brought about this recession which significantly lowered the revenue coming into the treasury. you add all of that up, we have a serious deficit crisis. our republican friends are saying well, be that as it may the solution is to cut social security which by the way had nothing to do with the deficit. medicare medicaid, education infrastructure et cetera and that's how we're going to balance the budget. but, say the republicans we're not going to ask the millionaires and billionaires who are doing phenomenally well whose effective tax rate is the lowest in decades to pay a nickel more in taxes. that, in a condensed way is the issue that we're debating. >> eliot: senator you made the accurate persuasive factual argument. unfortunately none of that matters in washington anymo
what happened is our friend in the white house, george w. bush and his republican deficit hawk friends went into two wars and the great deficit hawks eliot you know what? they forgot to pay for the wars. then they give huge tax breaks to billionaires. and then wall street brought about this recession which significantly lowered the revenue coming into the treasury. you add all of that up, we have a serious deficit crisis. our republican friends are saying well, be that as it may the solution is...
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former president george w. bush, k bailey hutchison, the former senator and former senator phil gramm. what are they talking about? >> well, it just shows how loosely constructed the doj's own expert said, i will read a direct quote from him in the trial, i was not asked to weigh in on the question of whether or not they would be able to vote. so this list was created to maximize the number of people that might be able to vote. it doesn't have a real basis in reality at all. >> what will happen with this decision, and what do you think the fate of voter id will be in this state? >> well, it is in the hands of the three-judge panel now, eric. it will be up to them to decide. unfortunately the way the law is written, eric holder does president have to prove his case. we have to prove he is wrong. ultimately it may result in the repeal of section five of the voting rights act which would be a great thing. >> well senator tommy williams and the other co-sponsors will await that decision by that panel in washington.
former president george w. bush, k bailey hutchison, the former senator and former senator phil gramm. what are they talking about? >> well, it just shows how loosely constructed the doj's own expert said, i will read a direct quote from him in the trial, i was not asked to weigh in on the question of whether or not they would be able to vote. so this list was created to maximize the number of people that might be able to vote. it doesn't have a real basis in reality at all. >> what...